Card holder



H. SCHMID March 1, 1938.

CARD HOLDER Filed Sept. 17, 1936 Patented Mar. 1, 1938 PATENT OFFICE CARD fianioschmid, Saarbru HOLDER ecken, Germany, assignor Remington Rand Inc., Buffalo, N. Y.

Application September 2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in card holders and particularly card holders formed of a sheet material holding member having a transparent sheath enclosing the free margin of the holding member so as to receive and protect the visible margin of a card inserted into the sheath and supported on the face of the holding member.

In the construction of card holders as heretofore made it has been customary to secure the sheath to the holding sheet by means of wire stitches usually placed at the ends of the sheath and another wire stitch usually placed in the central portion. With the use of a wire stitch securing the central portion of the sheath to the holding sheet or member, the card holder is adapted to receive a record card on only one side, as the wire stitch restricts the opening into the pocket between the sheath and card holder on the other side because the wire stitch usually extends through only one side of the sheath and the holding member. Of course, cards have been used on both sides of card holders of this character, but the card placed on the back face of the card holder is provided with a notch in the central portion to receive the central wire stitch.

This invention is designed to provide a holding and attaching means for the central portion of the sheath that will remove the obstruction heretofore occasioned in the use of the wire stitch so that plain cards may be inserted on both sides of the card holder into the sheath, and by this means, record cards may then be readily supported on both the front and back faces of the card holder.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 illustrates the rear face of a card holder constructed according to the invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section on an enlarged scale taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 shows an enlarged fragmentary portion of the central part of the card holder along the free margin in perspective, with portions broken away and shown in section in order to illustrate details of construction.

The card holder has a holding member I in the form of a rectangular sheet of paper with a supporting lug or attaching strip 2 stitched to one edge. The ends of the attaching strip extend beyond the ends of the holding member for engagement in the channels of an index tray to support the card holder in the index tray in a. manner well known in the art. The holding member I is provided with a plurality of diagonal slots 3 and 4 adapted to receive and retain the corners of cards supported on the card holder.

17,1936, Serial No. 101,286

A transparent sheath 5 preferably formed of a strip of celluloid, or similar transparent material, is folded longitudinally in its medial portion as indicated at 6 to provide a pair of fold portions 1 and 8 extending over opposite sides of the free margin of the holding member I, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The free edges of this strip are provided with inwardly turned flanges 9. These flanges 9 project toward fold portion 6, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. In constructing the sheath in this manner, the opening to the pockets on opposite sides of holding member I is such that the rounded edges provided on the sheath enable the easy insertion of cards into the pockets. The resiliency of the celluloid, or other material used, will also cooperate to project the flanges 9 into engagement with the holding member I and frictionally grip and retain record cards in the pockets formed by the sheath on opposite sides of the holding member.

The ends of the holding member are usually provided with cut-out portions I0 in the corners of the free marginal portions. Wire stitches II have one end secured through fold portions 1 and 8 of the sheath in the cut-out portions III, while the opposite ends extend through the sheet material forming the holding member, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1. This compensates for differences in expansion and contraction between the celluloid sheath and the holding member.

At the central portion of the free margin of the card holder, a strip I2 of celluloid or other suitable transparent material is folded transversely, and arranged at the rear side of holding member I with the fold portion of the strip engaged against the inside of fold portion 6 of sheath 5. The ends of this strip extend outwardly from fold portion 6, one end extending between flange 9 and fold portion 8 of the sheath and thereby having an interlocking connection with the sheath. The opposite end of the strip extends beyond the edge of the sheath as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and is secured to holding member I by wire stitch I3. Of course, this strip I2 may be cemented to holding member I and also to the celluloid sheath, or otherwise suitably secured to the holding member and the sheath.

The strip I2 eliminates the objectionable feature of the center stitch heretofore used, because it will be appreciated, in view of the foregoing description, that the pocket at the back of the card holder is not restricted at the central portion against the insertion of a. record card, be-

cause the free margin of the card will. be inserted between the ends of strip I2 and moved downwardly therein until it engages the fold portion of strip l2 and also the fold portion of sheath 5. While attaching strip I2 is preferably made of transparent material, this is not absolutely necessary and it is to be understood that while a preferred form of the invention is illustrated, the invention may be varied in the specific details of construction without departing from the spirit and scope of the claims. The invention as herein disclosed also incorporates novel features in combination between this central attaching means for the sheath and the provision for compensating for differences in expansion and contraction at the ends of the sheath so as to securely attach sheath 5 to the holding member, and at the same time provide card holding pockets on both faces of the holding member. The turned-in flange portions 9 also cooperate with the above mentioned features and the wire stitches at the ends of the sheath together with the central attaching means in supportingthe sheath on the holding member, pro- I viding rounded edges on the sheath to facilitate the insertion of record cards, and at the same time reinforcing the opposite edges of the sheath.

What is claimed is: 1. A card holder for visible indexes, comprising a holding member, a sheath formed of a lg ngitudinally folded strip of transparent matemember formed of a transversely folded strip having the fold portion seated in the fold portion of said sheath and the ends extending outwardly therefrom, one end engaging in the inturned edge portion on one fold of said sheath, and the other end being attached to said holding member, said attaching member cooperating to retain the central portion of said sheath on said holding member and at the same time receive the margin of a record card therein for retention by said sheath.

2. A card holder for visible indexes, comprising a holding member formed of sheet material, a sheath formed of a longitudinally folded strip of transparent material mounted on and enclosing a margin of said holding member, the free edges of each fold portion having inwardly extending folded portions projecting toward the fold of the strip, means at the ends of the strip securing the fold portions to the holding memher, a central sheath attaching member formed of a transparent transversely folded strip, the fold portion engaging in the fold of the sheath, one end engaging the inner face of one fold portion of the sheath and extending between the inwardly folded edge portion thereof and the adjacent portion of the sheath, the other end engaging a face of the margin of said holding member, and a wire stitch securing said last-named end of said attaching strip member to said holding member, said card holder thereby being adapted to receive 'a. card on each face with the margin engaged in said sheath.

HANS SCHMID. 

